Health Psychology : a Textbook

predictive of smoking behaviour (Murray et al. 1984; McNeil et al. 1988; Charlton and Blair 1989; Gillies and Galt 1990; Goddard ...

further drinking behaviour. However, it has been suggested that it is not the actual effects of alcohol use that promote drinkin ...

highlighted the processes involved in the transition from a smoker to a non-smoker and from a drinker to a non-drinker. They arg ...

you will not smoke during the next six months?’) and the number of previous quit attempts. Therefore, the process of smoking ces ...

Perceived stress scale (Cohen et al. 1985), which measures how much perceived stress the individual has experienced in the las ...

cessation programmes offer ways for the individual to reduce this dependency. For example, nicotine fading procedures encourage ...

aims to make the actual process of smoking unpleasant. Smokers are required to sit in a closed room and take a puff every 6 seco ...

professional guidance. Such procedures involve self-monitoring (keeping a record of own smoking/drinking behaviour), becoming aw ...

Self-help movements Although clinical and public health interventions have proliferated over the past few decades, up to 90 per ...

professionals are also illustrated by the results of the OXCHECK and Family Heart Study results (Muir et al. 1994; Wood et al. 1 ...

4 Government interventions. An additional means to promote both smoking cessation and healthy drinking is to encourage governmen ...

would not be interested in attending clinics based in hospitals or universities. The present study examined the effect of worksi ...

Methodological problems evaluating clinical and public health interventions Although researchers and health educators are motiva ...

consistent across a number of different addictive behaviours, with high rates initially tapering off over a year. This relapse p ...

Pre-lapse state High-risk situation. A high-risk situation is any situation that may motivate the individual to carry out the be ...

or will become a full-blown relapse. Marlatt and Gordon describe this transition as the abstinence violation effect (AVE). The a ...

A CROSS-ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOUR PERSPECTIVE According to the disease models of addiction, each behaviour is examined separately. The ...

human research. Further research suggests that smoking cessation may result in increases in consumption of calories, increases i ...

expectancies, and social factors, such as parental and peer group behaviour), to cessation (involving clinical perspectives, sel ...

which describes a physiological predisposition (the 2nd disease model) or learning the behaviour via reinforcement. FURTHER READ ...